 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain: To sit upon a...how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...conqueror nor conquered. So is the equal poise of this fell war. O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a...point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will finish up the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? О God! methinks it were a happy life, makes the hour full complete; Hew many hours brings about the day; How many days will finish up the... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...good will were so! For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a...Thereby to see the minutes how they run — How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will finish up the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...good will were so; For what is in this world bur grief and woe? О God! methinks it were a happy life, the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast teacher....and so, come in when ye will. [Exit. OWEN GLENDOWER. makes the hour full complete; How many hours brings about the day; How many days will finish up the... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 pages
...by King Henry in a fine speech of Shakespearian pastoralism : O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a...hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point to point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 286 pages
...Parsons and the plight of Shakespeare's first Lancastrian king O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. To sit upon a...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run. (3 Henry VI i.^.21-^) 22 These are the words of Shakespeare's first Lancastrian king, Henry VI, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 180 pages
...were so — 20 For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! Methinks it were a happy life 22 To be no better than a homely swain. To sit upon a hill, as I do now; 24 To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many makes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 pages
...good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks it were a happy life, Q makes the hour full complete; How many hours brings about the day; How many days will finish up the... | |
 | John F. McDiarmid - 2007 - 328 pages
...figure of Henry, isolated from the fighting, muses on the pains of high office. He states a desire to be 'no better than a homely swain, / To sit upon...point, / Thereby to see the minutes how they run' (II, iii, 22-5). 26 His reverie is rudely disturbed by the entry of 'A Sonne that hath kill'd his Father,... | |
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God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring... 
